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New Statement:

Christmas Message to the Canadian People - From a Bethelehmite

Successive Canadian governments have supported the Zionist project, the creation and maintenance of the state of Israel, and the accompanying military expansion and trampling of Palestinian human and national rights. In 1947 Canadian representatives played a major role in formulating and passing the UN Partition Plan for Palestine [Resolution 181 (II)]. Lester B. Pearson, then the Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, was instrumental in ensuring the passage of the Partition Resolution and Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ivan C. Rand, was a central figure in drafting it. As such, Canada must be held directly responsible for the dispossession of the Palestinian people and the ensuing suffering of the Palestinian refugees. (read more doc | pdf )


 

  
 

It Is About Time To Boycott the US - a Christmas 2008 message

The Palestinian people were promised an independent state 3 times in the last 15 years by successive U.S. government ? first in 1998, then 2005, and most recently by the end of 2008. In all three cases, the promises went unfulfilled, and were intended to be unfulfilled when declared... (read more)

Canada Votes - Consider what political parties have done in the past before voting.
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Been There And Done What? Canada's Role In The Israel-Palestine Conflict - By Bahija R?gha?
(Countercurrents.org)

During his state visit to Canada , Israeli President Chaim Herzog was invited to address the Canadian parliament on June 27, 1989. He was introduced by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with these words:

?Canada played a part in that process by participating in the United Nations Commission that proposed the partition of Palestine, by voting for Israel's membership in the UN and by contributing to the Middle East peace-keeping forces in the hope of stabilizing the region and of bringing peace to your country. Most of all, in the daring and difficult period of Israel's infancy, when your nation needed friends - true friends ? Canada was there. Canada was there over 40 years ago and our friendship and support remain with you today. (read more)

 Letter to the BC Liquor Store

"'The land of Israel has been producing wines for 5,000 years", said Norman Gladstone, Principal of International Cellars Inc... (read more)

Letter to the Georgia Straight

It might interest your readers to know that the "new-generation Israeli wines" that Jurgen Gothe was promoting (Feb. 14/08) are literally fruit from the vines of Israeli occupation. We recently sent a letter to the BC Liquor Distribution Branch... (read more)

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